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Hacked or not????

MoontjeC Member
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I previously had zenphoto 1.4.0.2 and suddenly today I received more than 10 e-mails that I received reactions on my photogallery. The mails were all in english from people I don't know and the reactions were like a discussing on a forum. I went to my admin page to delete those reactions and activated the spamfilter. After that I received one more e-mail of such reaction. Now I've installed Zenphoto 1.4.1.1 and I hope it will stop now.
Can you tell me if those reactions come from somebody who hacked my zenphoto or what? It's really anoying.

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    So you are talking about comments actually? If you have the mail notification enabeld (which is default) you get mails on every new comment.
  • MoontjeC Member
    I'm not talking about the comments on the forum, but the comments on my photos on my zenphoto page http://www.moonart.be/zenphoto/index.php
    My visitors can comment on my photoalbums and photos and suddenly I got comments from people who were having a discussion on a forum or something and all those comments appeared in my photoalbums. Their names, e-mails and website are in the information header of the reaction. All websites are google.com, bing.com and yahoo.com
    The comments are not about my photos but discussions between people and they appear in different albums or in different photos.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I was talking about the comments on the site as well (on a forum they are not called comments at all).

    You probably encountered a spam attack. These by definition often don't make sense and are often also generated by machines. Probably you should refine your spam settings or maybe moderate comments.
  • MoontjeC Member
    I've put spam and moderating on.Could you tell me what I should refine in my spam settings?
    I'm also going to block the IP-addresses from the senders.
    For the rest I must say, Zenphoto is a super product. I really like to work with it
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Moderation is actually a good way to prevent spam but a little work. You could try one of the 3rd party spam plugins like Akismet listed on the extensions. I can't say though if they still work without issues.
  • MoontjeC Member
    Okay, thanks a lot.
    Now I have another problem. After upgrading to latest version of Zenphoto I could log in in my admin, but now I can't anymore. So I entered the captcha in the password field and I receive an e-mail with a link to reset my password. But I don't understand what I have to do. When I go to the link I get my admin log in screen with empty fields. Waht do I have to enter in the fields?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    A new password maybe since you want to reset it.
  • MoontjeC Member
    So, I have to enter my user name and a password. but then which button do I have to hit? Log in or Reset?
  • sbillard Member
    Why don't you try both? Seriously, if you want to log on, don't you think the logon button would be the best bet?

    You should probably load the nightly build, BTW.
  • MoontjeC Member
    Nothing works. Now I don't even get e-mail anymore for resetting. Get error message there is no e-mail address in database or something like that. I removed Zenphoto from my server and re-uploaded it. Then did the setup.php, entered my username and password from MySQL I received from my host, clicked go button and was prompted to my admin login screen. And again my username and password didn't work. I'm desperate. I've looked everywhere on the forum in earlier posts of problems with admin username and password, but found no answer. I'll try to reload my zenphoto again to my server tomorrow and will see what happen. I'll keep in touch
  • sbillard Member
    If you did not drop your database or at least the admin table you really have changed nothing by re-installing. (You did download the nightly build for the reinstall, right?)

    The troubleshooting guide will describe exactly the possible steps to take to clear this up. I suggest you look again and find it, that it is what it is there for. [HINT: there is a link in the forum rules, but maybe you have not read them either.]
  • MoontjeC Member
    I'm sorry if I look stupid, but I'm not so familiar with databases and things like that. I'm a beginner in making website and configurating anything that has to do with that. I went looking in the troubleshooting guide, but I don't know which admin table I have to delete, where I can find it and I don't know what database I need to drop. So maybe I'm really stupid. But we can't all be computer specialists
  • sbillard Member
    The table will be <prefix>administrators where <prefix> is whatever you choose for your table prefix (default would be `zp_`)

    How you find the database and drop the table will depend on what your service provider has provided. Normally there is a WEB application available named phpMyAdmin. The database will be the one you provided setup with.

    We are here to help, but I am sure that you realize we cannot provide "basic training". We have to expect that users will aquire the basics elsewhere.
  • MoontjeC Member
    okay, thanks a lot. Luckily I'm a fast learner. I logged in to my server and found phpMyAdmin and the table zp_administrators and dropped it.
    I'll re-run setup and hope everything works out well this time. I read somewhere on the forum that I should load the folders album, backup, themes (I customized a default theme)and cache to my folder Zenphoto on the root of the server BEFORE running setup, so I don't loose my albums and photos I already made. Is that what I should do in my case now also?
    I made a backup of these folders before removing my zenphoto.
  • MoontjeC Member
    Everything worked out well. But I had to drop all zp_ tables.
    Thanks a lot for the help.
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